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  <dc:title>Journal of Jonathan Troup, physician, of Aberdeen, Scotland and Dominica, West Indies</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Journal recording Troup's return voyage from Dominica in the West Indies to his native Aberdeen and his time as a physician both in Aberdeen itself and in Cromar in Aberdeenshire, 1791 - 1797.

In addition to medical notes and remedies, the volume contains details of hs early financial difficulties, ambitions and social life including his deliberations about marriage, his illegitimate child and his disasterous courtship of Miss Rebecca Fraser of Broomhill.

There are also notes of books read, philosophical musings, quotations and sketches.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1791-1797</dc:date>
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